How to install PivotX on a CentOS/Fedora VPS

PivotX is free and open source PHP based blogging tool. Also, it can be used for maintaining more complex websites, online journals, etc. PivotX has very fast and easy installation, it is also easy for maintaining and easy to work with.
This blog article will help you to install PivotX on your CentOS or Fedora VPS.

Few requirements have to be met in order to run PivotX on your server:
– PHP version 5.2.0 or higher
– MySQL version 4.1 or higher
– GD and PCRE modules

First of all, make sure that you server is up-to-date:

yum -y update

and install the required modules:

yum -y install gd php-gd pcre

In order to check is your server suitable for PivotX or not, download and unzip the following file:

PivotX is translated to many languages, so you can use PivotX in your native language. Download the translation you need from PivotX’s translation page to the ‘var/www/html/pivotx/pivotx/langs’ directory.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert linux admins to install PivotX for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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